GNTY vs. CUBI, VBTX, QCRH, CMPO, BY, CCB, FBMS, SII, FSUN, and OBK
Should you be buying Guaranty Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guaranty Bancshares include Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Veritex (VBTX), QCR (QCRH), CompoSecure (CMPO), Byline Bancorp (BY), Coastal Financial (CCB), First Bancshares (FBMS), Sprott (SII), Firstsun Capital Bancorp (FSUN), and Origin Bancorp (OBK). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Guaranty Bancshares vs.
Customers Bancorp (NYSE:CUBI) and Guaranty Bancshares (NASDAQ:GNTY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking and valuation.
Customers Bancorp has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guaranty Bancshares has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Customers Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Guaranty Bancshares. Customers Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Guaranty Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Customers Bancorp received 135 more outperform votes than Guaranty Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.79% of users gave Customers Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.14% of users gave Guaranty Bancshares an outperform vote.
89.3% of Customers Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.4% of Guaranty Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 6.9% of Customers Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.4% of Guaranty Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Customers Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $62.22, suggesting a potential upside of 24.86%. Guaranty Bancshares has a consensus price target of $36.67, suggesting a potential upside of 3.91%. Given Customers Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Customers Bancorp is more favorable than Guaranty Bancshares.
Customers Bancorp has a net margin of 15.22% compared to Guaranty Bancshares' net margin of 15.01%. Customers Bancorp's return on equity of 13.55% beat Guaranty Bancshares' return on equity.
In the previous week, Customers Bancorp had 24 more articles in the media than Guaranty Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Customers Bancorp and 3 mentions for Guaranty Bancshares. Guaranty Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Customers Bancorp's score of 0.07 indicating that Guaranty Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Customers Bancorp beats Guaranty Bancshares on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GNTY) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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